Can Dorico do something like this example of Cagean time bracket notation? (See attachment.)
I did this in 2004 in Sibelius 6.2 for my composition “Invisible Chopin”. As I recall it was not too difficult, but I did have to fool the program into spacing things equally across the staff by using simple meters and having barlines that were invisible. Or something like that.
Haven’t tried to reproduce your example, but that looks like a breeze with the Note Spacing tool, where you have visual aids to help you align. I don’t know what the other parts are, but perhaps you can achieve proportional spacing with an adequate note spacing rule as well.
I just opened the example again from the thread above, and it has no barlines anywhere - but I can’t figure out how Anthony at Steinberg got rid of them! I tried making a new file, but it comes with barlines. Changing the barline color in Engrave mode didn’t work.Then I tried adding a new flow to Anthony’s file, and creating a new frame for the flow in Engrave mode - but it comes with a barline. So now I’m curious!
It’s been over two years since I asked about Cagean Time Bracket Notation, and Dorico has introduced many new features. However, I have not been more than a very casual user in that time. So I wanted to bounce this question so the experts can let us all know if things have gotten any better.
there hasn’t been too many changes relevant to this – which is to say it should in general be as simple as it was two years ago. The one thing that I can think of, however, that might be an advantage for Time Brackets is the addition of Flow Headings, which, depending on the details of the material, might be employed to get a lot of the layout work done semi-automatically in a way that was not possible before.
Are there some specific problems that you are struggling with? I ask because I would assume that with the example Project referred to above you should be well set up to get a general workflow going. So I wonder if maybe there is some issue that is holding you back that might be cleared up easily.